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Post by 540inashville on Feb 21, 2012 11:27:49 GMT -5
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Post by 540inashville on Feb 21, 2012 16:51:06 GMT -5
no one knows?
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timh
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Post by timh on Feb 21, 2012 18:59:31 GMT -5
Your picture quality with interference from the bags makes it difficult to see, but my guess on a few of them are...
picture 1 - the brown and white circular stones appear to be pieces of tumbled agate. The bluish piecs on the lower right may be chrysocolla and the baggie on the far right may be polished moonstone.
picture 2 - in the left compartment the red and black stones appear to be tumbled rhodonite. The reddish, tabular sort of hex shaped stone on the left appears to be a piece of tumbled corundum. The small blue/gray/black piece on the right appears to be more chrysocolla.
in the right compartment the small green rocks in the upper left container may be pieces of emerald. The lower left container appears to have small rubies/corundum crystals. The container on the upper right could be polished garnet pieces.
picture 6 - possibly topaz
picture 7 - possibly pieces of almandine garnet.
the rest are to blurry to guess at.
Most of this would make sense if the person you got them from collected in NC.
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Post by 540inashville on Feb 24, 2012 10:33:25 GMT -5
North Carolina for sure- I spent my childhood camping and mining in Cowee Valley... the stones in the bag that look like moonstone are cabbed opals. I thought the polished pieces may be agate, but there was no crystallization on the inside, and the outside was white... not like I had seen before. There is a lot of garnet, ruby, sapphire, and several parcels of lightning ridge crystal opal as well as coober pedy white base opal... In the top picture, the 2 bags with green stones are different- the top ones are rough slabs, the one right under it is solid and has a rough rock base attached... the items I was interested in were the less valuable ones- the polished large rocks, the green slices in the top picture, and the items in the bottom of the 2nd picture- I know the pink is coral, but the black colored stick shaped items- are they coral as well? This is what I have started doing with the opal.... now to find the right buyers....    I'm thinking about branching out and using some tigers eye, ruby, sapphire, lapis, and turquoise... |
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Post by timh on Feb 24, 2012 18:27:34 GMT -5
I believe the green slabs in the second picture are chrysoprase. Don't know about the brown stick looking things.
Those polished pieces with the opal look nice. I have some nice tigereye. If you want to trade one of the polished pieces for a chunk of it let me know.
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Post by mikeyrocks on Feb 25, 2012 4:20:08 GMT -5
First photo bag center right edge is various grades of the crystal opal cut and polished, Australian...maybe Lambina or possibly the Ridge. Top bag green slices.... australian chrysoprase (green quartz colored by nickle and aluminum) Center isn't clear enough; it could be chrysoprase or chrysocolla. Below it appears to be a fairly highly silicated chrysocolla (copper family mix of malachite and azurite with quartz. Left bags might be Tampa Bay Coral with some of it sliced across instead of split lenghtwise. Second photo top left compartment contains more chrysoprase, some tumbled/cut rhodonite (black/pink), a piece of corrundum (ruby) pink w/no black .....center campartment.... garnets and assorted materials like tourmaline and saphire (cannot see to tell) bottom compartment two pieces of black coral (sticks) and another piece which appears to be a red coral. Next some facet rough in bags. The dark pendants appear to be fossil algae inlaid with the crystal opal.
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Post by 540inashville on Feb 27, 2012 9:48:35 GMT -5
next up.... grips for a practical tanto:  and what to do with this.......   |
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Post by 540inashville on Feb 27, 2012 9:49:45 GMT -5
First photo bag center right edge is various grades of the crystal opal cut and polished, Australian...maybe Lambina or possibly the Ridge. Top bag green slices.... australian chrysoprase (green quartz colored by nickle and aluminum) Center isn't clear enough; it could be chrysoprase or chrysocolla. Below it appears to be a fairly highly silicated chrysocolla (copper family mix of malachite and azurite with quartz. Left bags might be Tampa Bay Coral with some of it sliced across instead of split lenghtwise. Second photo top left compartment contains more chrysoprase, some tumbled/cut rhodonite (black/pink), a piece of corrundum (ruby) pink w/no black .....center campartment.... garnets and assorted materials like tourmaline and saphire (cannot see to tell) bottom compartment two pieces of black coral (sticks) and another piece which appears to be a red coral. Next some facet rough in bags. The dark pendants appear to be fossil algae inlaid with the crystal opal. The opal is all lightning ridge, been out of the ground for over 30 years... and the tampa bay coral makes sense- my dad lived there and scuba dove during teh mid to late 70's.... |
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